Lewis v. Lewis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The object of this writ of error is to reverse a judgment rendered by the Union Circuit Court in an ordinary suit upon a mechanic’s lien claim. As the return to the writ, various matters are printed in the book submitted to the court which cannot legally be embraced' in the return. The common law return to the writ contains simply a transcript of the record from the book of judgments or judgment roll (M’Courry v. Doremus, 5 Halst. 245), and by section 245 of the Practice act the return is also to contain the bills of exception, if there.be…